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Up Vermont Avenue, to the right of the Church, is 1225. the original location for my military High School, St John's College. We used to close both ends of Vermont Avenue for drills. The building was gone by the summer of 1959 so the Hotel, seen in today's visit, could be built. Great times, dare I say, "Happy Days"?

Major General George H. Thomas was one of the best Union generals, but was disliked by Grant who saw the careful and thoughtful preparations of Thomas as slowness. Called "Old Pap" by his troops, unlike Grant, Thomas was loathe to repeatedly throw men at fortified defenses, but when in command on the battlefield he won the battle. In defeat he could personally triumph, as he did in his defense of the Union retreat at Chickamauga, and thereafter known as "The Rock of Chickamauga". In the 19th century the Big 4 of Union generals: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas. Died in 1870 in San Francisco.

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo archive featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1960s. (Available as fine-art prints from the Shorpy Archive.) The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.